Hair

My ruminations on punk hair and how it changed over time, thank god. The idea that your hair or music preference could get you beat up seems absolutely silly now, as it did then, but, trust me, it was very real.

Everything by Dean Westerfield
Clean up by Jeff Guarino

Banned in DC

Here is the next post by Dean of his music musings. He's staying with the Bad Brains for this one. These drawings are based on one of his strolls around Long Beach. Each DNA a real tag he found.

Everything by Dean.
Clean up by Jeff.

Next up: Hair

My First Time

Honestly, the show was way more crowded than I depicted, but you get the idea.  You can find a full video of the show at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1-HmtGv-0M. I jumped in at 29:11, when "I Against I" kicks in.

Fun fact: The Country Club used to be a grocery store and is now a church.

Everything by me. Jeff cleaned it up. Thanks, bro.

Shared Alienation

Here is the second installment of Dean's music musings.
Dean actually rented Hüsker Dü's New Day Rising from the Huntington Beach Public Library for 25 cents. That record changed his life.
Dean drew and wrote the thing. Jeff coined the last line and cleaned up the pages.
Next up: Slamming at the Bad Brains

In On The Know

While between big projects, Dean drew short comix stories based on his experiences with music. "In On The Know" is the first of these stories.

Dean did a lot of visual research to draw the Central Huntington Beach Library for this piece. It, in fact, wore him out.

Jeff played editor and cleaner upper.

Blessed

This will be the last of "The Cave Man Speaks" stories for a bit.
This one is dedicated to Rebekah W.
Next up, we will be posting Dean's ruminations on music.

The Cave Man Speaks of Science Fiction

The Cave Man's Favorite Book

This is the very first color experiment for the Cave Man Speaks. Dean grabbed a favorite line from Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian and drew, lettered and colored this one pager.

The Cave Man Speaks of Technology

Our second installment of our "Cave Man Speaks" series.  Inspired by The Shallows by Nicholas Carr.

The Cave Man Speaks

Here is the first installment of "The Cave Man Speaks." Short and to the point.

Teacher Union Comic

Here is a short story we did for a friend, Alan Clark. Both Jeff and I are teachers and we feel strongly about protecting the rights and freedoms of teachers, so they can adequately service the needs of their students.

New Blog, New Comix

Hey all,

Westerino Comix have finished two big books, Moses (nearly 600 pages) and Amboy, Pop. 5 (at 200 pages). This site is where we are going to post our short comix. Some will be from our off-and-on-again comic called "The Cave Man Speaks," where we say what we want to say about whatever. We will also post from Dean's comic-in-the-works, which focuses on his views and experiences with music.

You can still follow Westerino Comix on Facebook, where you will see work in progress.

Thanks for looking,


Jeff and Dean